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No. 415,562. Patented Nbv. 19, 1889.

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Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWVIN O. ROOD, OF MAPLE PARK, ASSIGNOR TO E. O. ROOD 81? 00., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED lRONlNG-TABLE AND CLOTHES-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,562, dated November 19, 1889.

Application filed April 3, 1889. Serial No. 305,862. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN O. ROOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Maple Park, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Ironing-Table and Clothes-Rack, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a combined ironing-table and clothes-rack constructed, combined, and operating as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

Figures 1 and 2 represent perspective views of a combined ironing-table and clothes-rack embodying my invention, the same being in respectively open and closed positions.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in the two figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates an ironing-board, which is hinged to the ledge B, attached to the legs F of the frame C. Secured to the top of the leg D of the frame is a cross-piece E, which is adapted to sustain the free end of the board, or end opposite to the hinges thereof. The legs F are extended above the ironing-board and crossed, their upper ends sustaining the cross-bar G, which, as will be seen, are directly above the ledge B.

H H designate swinging racks for clothes, towels, &c., in the present case four in number, each having the upright H formed with journals J, whose bearings are in the ledge B and crossbar G, it being noticed that the journals of the racks H are set forward of the journals of the racks H, and that the racks II have legs K, which rest on the floor or ground. The cross-piece E has near its ends the shoulders L, and the outer uprights of the racks are recessed, as at M N, so as to engage with said cross-piece.

The racks are provided with hooks or catches P and pins Q, whereby they may be held in closed posit-ion. \Vhen the ironing board and table are required for service, the catches P are released and the racks are swung out, as seen in Fig. 1, it being noticed that the racks H abut against the upper parts of the legs F, and the racks H abut against the uprights H of the racks H. By these provisions the opening of the racks is properly limited, it being noticed that contiguous racks set at a right angle to each other, so that each rack is conveniently accessible from both sides. The ironing-board is also accessible, and may be raised as required for the application and removal of shirts, the, to be ironed, said board, when lowered, having its free end resting firmly on the cross-piece E. The racks H may be closed against the ironing-board when so required, in which position the top Walls or shoulders of the recesses M rest on the crosspiece E, thus preventing sagging of said racks. The racks H may be also closed toward the racks H, in which case the shoulders L on the cross-piece E act as a stop to limit the closing motion of said racks H. The catches P may now be applied, whereby the several parts are held compactly together, and the device maybe stowed away'or packed, as desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by. Letters Patent, is-

1. A combined ironing-board and clothesrack consisting of a frame with a board pivoted to a ledge at one end thereof, a crossbar secured to said frame above said ledge, racks journaled in said ledge and bar and having legs at their outer ends adapted to sustain them, and racks j ournaled in said bar and ledge in advance of said first-mentioned racks and adapted to swing at angles to the same, said parts being combined substantially as described.

2. A combined ironing-table and clothesrack consisting of the frame 0, with crosslegs F at one end thereof, the ledge B and cross-bar G, secured to said cross-legs, the cross-bar E at the other end of the frame, and having the shoulders L, and the racks H H, journaled in the said ledge and cross-bar and having notches M and N, respectively, said parts being combined substantially as described.

3. In a combined ironing-table and clothesrack, the hinged ironing-board, in combination with the cross-piece E, which sustains the free end of said board, and the swinging racks having recesses and engaging with said cross-piece, substantially as described.

EDXVIN O. ROOD.

l/Vitnesses:

II. L. MILLERD, EBEN F. RUNYAN, Jr. 

